Sentiment Analysis for People’s Opinions about COVID-19 Using LSTM and CNN Models

Authors

  • Maisa Al-Khazaleh The Hashemite University, Faculty of Science, Basic Sciences Department, Zarqa, Jordan
  • Marwah Alian The Hashemite University, Faculty of Science, Basic Sciences Department, Zarqa, Jordan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6358-059X
  • Mariam Biltawi Al Hussein Technical University, Computer Science Department, Amman, Jordan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4386-0823
  • Bayan Al-Hazaimeh The Hashemite University, Faculty of Science, Basic Sciences Department, Zarqa, Jordan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6968-5103

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v19i01.35645

Keywords:

Arabic Sentiment Analysis, Aravec word embedding, Convolutional Neural network, Deep Learning, Long Short Term Memory, COVID-19

Abstract


The emergence of social media platforms, which contributed in activating the patterns of connection between individuals, leads to the availability of a huge amount of content such as text, images, and videos. Twitter is one of the most popular platforms of social media that encourage researchers to investigate people’s feelings and opinions among through sentiment analysis studies that elicited the interest of researchers in natural language processing field. Many techniques related to machine learning and deep learning models could be used to improve the efficiency and performance of sentiment analysis, especially in complex classification problems. In this paper, different models of long short-term memory recurrent neural network are used for the sentiment classification task. The input text was represented as vectors using Arabic pre-trained word embedding (Aravec). Experiments were conducted using different dimensions of Aravec on 15779 tweets about COVID-19 collected and labeled as positive and negative. The experimental results show an accuracy value of 98%.

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Published

2023-01-17

How to Cite

Al-Khazaleh , M., Alian, M., Biltawi , M., & Al-Hazaimeh , B. (2023). Sentiment Analysis for People’s Opinions about COVID-19 Using LSTM and CNN Models. International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE), 19(01), pp. 135–154. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v19i01.35645

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Vol. 19 No. 01 (2023)

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